Search for crossword answers and clues
Arizona city (that rose from the ashes?)
Answer for the clue "Arizona city (that rose from the ashes?) ", 7 letters:
phoenix
Alternative clues for the word phoenix
Word definitions for phoenix in dictionaries
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1321045 Housing Units (2000): 495832 Land area (2000): 474.864719 sq. miles (1229.893925 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.227065 sq. miles (0.588095 sq. km) Total area (2000): 475.091784 sq. miles (1230.482020 sq. km) FIPS code: 55000 Located ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Phoenix was the first Russian-American Company ship built in Russian America (roughly equivalent to today's Alaska ). James George Shields, a British mariner in the employ of the Russian Navy , directed her construction, using mainly local materials. The ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English and Old French fenix , from Medieval Latin phenix , from Latin phoenix , from Greek phoinix , mythical bird of Arabia which flew to Egypt every 500 years to be reborn, also "the date" (fruit and tree), also "Phoenician," literally "purple-red," ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mythology English) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes. 2 (context figuratively ...
Usage examples of phoenix.
New York was appallingly similar to the stonewalling encountered by FBI agents in Phoenix and Minneapolis.
In an interview for this book, Hauswirth said that sixty of the two hundred and thirty agents in Phoenix were working drug cases at the time.
It ran from the gold mines down near the Mexican border beginning at Lukeville up through Gunsight, to Ajo, through Gila Bend, and finally into Buckeye, where it linked up with the railroad that ran east and west out of Phoenix.
She led Andi through a tasteful living room with dark hardwood floors, low tables with large, colorful porcelain vases decorated with dragons and gilded phoenixes.
The red ember of Phoenix, otherwise known as Manticore-A II, rested on the horizon, just above the tips of the Old Earth spruces fringing the lawn, and the gleaming gems of at least a dozen orbital platforms moved visibly against the stars.
Southern Pacific Train Number Three arrived in Los Angeles on its overnight run from Phoenix on Monday morning, October 19, 1931, the baggageman reported to the district supervisor the two trunks had smelted up his car.
Phoenix described the original temple at Heliopolis where the Benben had been housed.
As the color slowly drained from our circle, the light built behind him, and I found myself back in Phoenix, on Camelback Mountain, looking southwest over Frozen Shade and the rest of the city.
Phoenix is fairest above all others and there cannot be more than one Phoenix at a time, so Fenice, I deem, had no peer for beauty.
Department, 1745 Mission Drive, Solvang, California, and it was addressed to Garda Headquarters in Phoenix Park.
The sleek battle cruiser powered on, leaving behind the campus of Maricopa Tech and the Phoenix Art Center in its wake.
The Phoenix Exultant carried factories for the nucleogenesis of antimatter, in volume and output as large as any dozen of the antimatter-production facilities orbiting near Mercury Equilateral.
Going back to the one we left over a year ago, when we first skipped to Phoenix from Earth, is really out of the question.
As a matter of standard operating procedure, new colonies transmit a daily compilation of all colony data into a skip drone, which then skips back to Phoenix so that the Colonial government can keep tabs on colony matters.
So they had driven the three hundred miles that stretc between Phoenix and Las Vegas, stopping only long enou to get gas and pick up hamburgers, sodas and fries.